In a UK edition, Geis' illustrations were replaced by cartoons by Mel Calman. Not a statistician, Huff was a journalist who wrote many how-to articles as a freelancer. The original edition contained illustrations by artist Irving Geis. How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. It also shows how statistical graphs can be used to distort reality, for example by truncating the bottom of a line or bar chart, so that differences seem larger than they are, or by representing one-dimensional quantities on a pictogram by two- or three-dimensional objects to compare their sizes, so that the reader forgets that the images do not scale the same way the quantities do. Themes of the book include ' Correlation does not imply causation' and 'Using random sampling'. It has become one of the best-selling statistics books in history, with over one and a half million copies sold in the English-language edition. In the 1960s and 1970s, it became a standard textbook introduction to the subject of statistics for many college students. The book is a brief, breezy illustrated volume outlining the misuse of statistics and errors in the interpretation of statistics, and how errors create incorrect conclusions. How to Lie with Statistics is a book written by Darrell Huff in 1954, presenting an introduction to statistics for the general reader. Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA 1938, MA 1939). How to Lie with Statistics at Internet Archive Darrell Huff (J June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century.

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